AP World History Unit 5 Multiple Choice – Flashcards

The turning point in Napoleon's career was his disastrous 1812 invasion of...

Which one of the following was NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers? a. popular sovereignty b. social contract c. political equality d. equality for women e. individual freedom

The Declaration of Independence's contractual view of political structure in which the government drew its authority from "the consent of the governed" was influenced by...

Which of the following was NOT one of the principles built into the government of the newly formed American state? a. the equality of all inhabitants b. freedom from British control c. a written constitution that guaranteed personal freedoms d. a responsible government based on popular sovereignty e. the creation of a federation republic

What was the ancient regime?

What was the Concordat?

Who was the leader who was responsible for the success of the Saint-Domingue uprising?

What was Simon Bolivar's end goal?

Which of the following revolutionary leaders is not correctly linked with his country? a. Bernardo O'Higgins and Chile b. Toys saint Louverture and Haiti c. Jose de San Martin and Argentina d. Augustine de Iturbide and Mexico e. Miguel de Hidalgo and Peru

How did the French respond to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?

The revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and...

After the end of the Seven Years' War...

On 17 June 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the...

The most radical period of the French Revolution was reached during the leadership of who?

The guiding principles of the French Revolution was summed up in which phrase?

Among the leading proponents of conservatism in the eighteenth century was...

While women in France and Latin America did not win the right to vote until after the Second World War, American and British women gained the franchise...

Who was the leading conservative politician at the Congress of Vienna?

What nineteenth-century English thinker promoted individual freedom, universal suffrage, taxation of high personal income, and an extension of the rights of freedom and equality to women?

In the 1880s, Otto Von Bismarck...

Marx and Engels proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes; what were they?

Which of the following was NOT a problem that plagued Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South/Southeast Asia? a. Both native and foreign financial interests adopted an anti-free trade policy b. Wealth was concentrated in the hands of a small group of people c. They were too reliant on one crop d. Foreign investors owned and controlled the plantations e. They depended too heavily on exporting primary products with no industrialization

What was a zaibatsu?

By 1900, half the world's oil was produced by what country?

What did Marx refer to as the "opiate of the masses"?

The industrial revolution began in which country?

What was crucial to industrialization?

What did the British Calico Acts of 1720 and 1721 do?

Who was the inventor of the flying shuttle?

Edmund Cartwright was responsible for the invention of which machine?

James Watt invented a more efficient steam pump when...

Marx suggested that music, art, and literature...

What did Marx believe was the final resul of the socialist revolution?

By 1900, the world's four biggest steel producers were...

In Japan, industrialization took place...

Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand...

Most of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa...

Henry Bessemer's innovations made it possible to produce cheaper...

Who were the Luddites?

In America, the petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company, was owned by who?

What was the first efficient means of contraception without negative side effects?

What was Holy Monday?

According to Marx, all of human history has been a history of...

Beginning in the 19th century, industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when...

The last major Indian victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the Battle of...

Which of the following was NOT one of the chief factors for the outbreak of the American Civil War? a. the election of Abraham Lincoln b. the issue of slavery c. the imperatives of a budding industrial-capitalist system against those of an export-oriented plantation economy d. the tradition argument between a British or French alliance e. states' rights as opposed to the federal government's authority

The victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War meant that...

The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812...

Who was Benito Juarez?

Who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion?

The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in which country?

Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the...

The Meiji reformers actively copied the western Europeans and Americans because...

The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually...

What were the working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow like?

Who was the prime mover behind Russian industrialization?

Which of the following accounts for beginning the social reform movement in Russia in the 19th century?

Which of the following was NOT one of the leading principles of the Young Turks? a. universal suffrage b. emancipation of women c. equality before law d. Islam as the guiding principle in public life e. free public education

The capitulations were unfair trading agreements between the western Europeans and the...

Which of the following was NOT one of the principles of the Taiping Rebellion? a. the creation of communal wealth to be shared according to need b. Hong Xuiquan's belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha c. the prohibition of footbinding and concubinage d. abolition of private property e. free public education

By the end of the 19th century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was...

Which of the following is NOT one of the foundations of the Meiji restoration? a. abolishing the old feudal order b. turning Japan into a constiutional republic c. improving the Japanese educational system d. revamping the tax system e. reorganizing the Japanese army and navy

The event that best displayed Japan's rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the...

The decisive point in the Opium War was...